There are other unbeatens besides D-I powers
Beasley making case to be considered best freshman from impressive class
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You haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention if you don’t know there are three unbeaten teams in Division I entering the weekend. North Carolina (18-0), Memphis (16-0) and Kansas (17-0), the top three teams in the Top 25, are the only ones yet to lose a game this season.
There were several other men’s teams yet to taste defeat through Thursday’s games:
NCAA Division II: Grand Valley State (19-0), Bentley (15-0) and West Liberty (13-0);
NCAA Division III: Massachusetts-Dartmouth (14-0) and Rochester (12-0);
NAIA Division I: Georgetown (Ky.) (19-0), Mountain State (17-0), LSU-Shreveport (15-0), Lee (Tenn). (15-0);
NAIA Division II: Morningside (Iowa) (19-0).
Fab Frosh
Michael Beasley of Kansas State has put up a pretty good case to be considered the best freshman in what has become a special freshman class.
The 6-foot-10 Beasley scored 32 points against Oklahoma last weekend in his first Big 12 road game. It was his sixth game of 30 or more points in 15 games this season. The six 30-plus games is second-most in Big 12 history behind the 11 of Texas’ Kevin Durant, last season’s super freshman, and one behind the school record set by Bob Boozer in 1958-59 and matched by Norris Coleman in 1985-86.
Knight School
Texas A&M’s Mark Turgeon has learned plenty from the coach who earned career win No. 900 against him this week.
Texas Tech beat Turgeon’s 10th-ranked Aggies 68-53 this week, Bob Knight’s 900th victory as a Division I head coach.
Turgeon, who played for Larry Brown and worked under Roy Williams at Kansas, faced Knight as a coach for the first time. It wasn’t the first time Turgeon scrutinized the Hall of Fame coach. As a 23-year-old graduate assistant under Williams, Turgeon attended one of Knight’s coaching clinics at Indiana and discovered things he still uses.
“I still do drills that I learned at that clinic,” Turgeon said. “I’ve followed him for a long time and studied him, even from afar, even when I wasn’t in his league, watching his teams play, trying to get a feel for things they did offensively.”
Two-Sport Athlete
Jarrett Brown, a backup quarterback for West Virginia, has joined coach Bob Huggins’ basketball team.
Brown sat on the bench for the Mountaineers’ home victory over Syracuse last weekend and started practicing with the team during the week.
He said would occasionally play in the rec center with some of the basketball players.
“I guess somebody was impressed with what they saw,” Brown said.
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“Hopefully he will give us a physical guy and maybe even a leader. He is a quarterback after all,” Huggins said.
New football coach Bill Stewart says he’s behind Brown’s decision to play basketball “100 percent.”
Brown says he had thought about joining the basketball team before but never had the time because of football training.
“I always wanted to play basketball and I didn’t want to regret not doing it,” he said. “I think this will make me happier.”
Gameday Debut
ESPN’s College GameDay begins its fourth season this weekend at the Kentucky-Florida game.
Comprised of two one-hour shows, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. EST, GameDay features analysts Jay Bilas, Digger Phelps and Hubert Davis and, like its football counterpart, is broadcast live from a game site.
The other GameDay matchups are: Creighton at Southern Illinois, Jan. 26; Arizona at UCLA, Feb. 2; Georgetown at Louisville, Feb. 9; Michigan State at Indiana, Feb. 16; Tennessee at Memphis, Feb. 23; Kansas State at Kansas, March 1; North Carolina at Duke, March 8.
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